To Your Eternity E2 Full Reaction

You know I'm impressed with your reaction to this episode. Of all the reactions I have watched your the first person to admit that even if we deem something to be wrong or immoral it is not always our place to pass judgement on culture completely separate from us. This is especially common when looking back on ancient cultures and judging them by modern day values and morality. Though in this situation we are showed in episode 3, and 4 that this tradition maybe manufactured by the Yanomoe people as a tool to control/supress the region and its resources. This is much more accurate to real history than I would like it to be. Unfortunately Culture, traditions and religion have long since been manipulated to serve though in positions of power. Several reactions I saw were adamant that they should fight back as if it was obvious, simple and easy. Truly if it was a consensus of the village to fight back and they could hide their enmity enough to ambush Hayase and her guards they might win that fight with limited injuries. That is unrealistic though and if attention is paid you see that the villagers have no Metal working, they use stone, bone and wooden tools. Quite a few would die in fighting back. That is only the start of it though, if the village killed that small ground they would get attacked by an army weeks or months later, its like what happened to those that resisted the Romans, they are wiped out to make an example to other villages. Resist us and you all die, sacrifice one girl every few years and you get to live in peace. There is also an ominous psychological trap to this system which the show doesn't explicitly mention. As a villager you justify the sacrifice by saying it is necessary to keep peace, if you fight back you break that peace that cost all the lives that were previously sacrificed. It is very similar to the sunk cost fallacy, too much have been "paid" to stop now, if we were to fight back we should have done that before the first time, now its already too late. I guess this also explains these sorts of traditions in the real world, if someone died for something you end up defending the necessity of that to feel some comfort over the loss. "There was no other way" All very interesting and what makes "To Your Eternity" especially unique, Thanks for the Reaction ^^

AngieAngelFish